Blood donation is a community responsibility. About one in seven people entering a hospital needs blood. Regular blood transfusion is required for treating thalassemia patients. Hence, many lives can be saved every year by donating blood voluntarily. However, only a...
Children have basic rights to education, balanced diet, health and nutrition and recreation. But unfortunately, many of our children are deprived of these basic human rights. Thousands of children in Dhaka city live in the railway stations, bus terminals, outside...
Imam Hossain | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
Findings in the latest BBS report on child mortality rate in Bangladesh are cause for concern. According to the Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics launched recently by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, the mortality rate of children under five...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh's (TCB's) latest market intervention in the form of sale of three essentials---soybean oil, sugar and lentil ---purportedly to ease the inflationary pressure off from the low-income segment of people on the eve of Eid-ul-Adha could...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
A host of factors determines our health. For making health policy, and developing and delivering health programmes, it is very important to know what these determinants are, how these influence health, and then develop a useful framework to understand it....
M. Rokonuzzaman | 2023-06-14 12:00:00
Currently, science and technology are no longer a forte of the Muslim world. With a population of 1.8 billion, it has achieved only 12 Nobel prizes. But between 1901 and 2022, as many as 211 people from the 16-million strong...
Amid rising cases of dengue, attendants of patients at Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital are sleeping on a corridor of the health facility at night by setting mosquito nets in a bid to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. The photo was...
PARIS, June 13 (AFP) : French-Austrian drugmaker Valneva's vaccine candidate against chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that causes occasional outbreaks across the world, showed promising results in a large new trial, a study said on Tuesday.While the results were hailed as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent fresh seasonal mangoes as gifts to Droupadi Murmu, President of India, and Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, reports UNB.She also gifted mangoes to Sonia Gandhi, former president of Indian National Congress, and other...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked financial institutions to formulate clear policies approved by their boards for the recruitment, promotion and overall human resource management, reports BSS.This will ensure good governance of financial institutions and appointment of honest and skilled staffers,...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Saudi Arabia through its King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre provided more than US$600 million to Bangladesh for different humanitarian projects, said Saudi Ambassador to Dhaka Essa bin Yousef Al Duhailan on Tuesday.Addressing a function in the city the...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The country's overall electricity generation from renewable-energy sources would rise by around 2,000 megawatts (MW) within the next two years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR), said on Tuesday.Besides, generation of around 6,000...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
A petition has been filed with the High Court seeking its directives upon the concerned bodies of the government to submit a list of the top drug dealers of the country including their names and addresses. It also appealed to...
ARAFAT ARA | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The rate of Bangladeshi migrant workers returning home from different job destination countries has been increasing over the last five years, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).Three out of every 1,000 migrant workers returned home...
As many as 20,988 foreigners are engaged in different works in Bangladesh, with the highest number of them from China, followed by India, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said, reports bdnews24.com.Responding to a question in parliament on Tuesday, the minister...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Some 10 million low-income card-holder families can buy an additional 5.0 kg of rice at a subsidised price alongside three existing commodities - edible oil, sugar and lentils - from July next.Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said this as the chief...
Six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged High Representative/Vice-President of the European Union (EU) Josep Borrell Fontelles to ensure free, fair, and impartial general election - possibly under a polls-time neutral, caretaker government - in Bangladesh, reports UNB.The...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The High Court has fixed new dates for hearing on five writ petitions and eight income-tax references filed by two organisations owned by Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus against an income tax claim of around Tk11 billion by the...
Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said on Tuesday the committee recommended to the cabinet for extending the Eid-ul-Azha holiday by one day and begin the vacation on June...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Deposit in Bangladesh's banking system increases and so does the number of millionaire accountholders, according to latest official statistics that come as solace for banks in the wake of liquidity crunch.Simultaneously, advances from the scheduled banks increased by Tk173.81 billion...
GENEVA, June 13 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Geneva this afternoon on an official visit to attend the "World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All" to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15.A regular flight of...
DSE sinks below 6,300 on corrections of stocks The broad index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange on Tuesday sank below 6,300 points after 14 sessions as a section of jittery investors executed sell-offs while others remained silent. Amid the selling...
World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser, has reaffirmed the organization's continued support to help Bangladesh achieve sustainable and inclusive growth, reports UNB."Bangladesh faces continued external pressures, which require careful macroeconomic management, but also a deepening of structural...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$400 million as loan to facilitate Bangladesh’s reforms in domestic resource mobilisation, improve efficiency and productivity of public spending.Besides, the assistance also aims to help small businesses, especially women-led businesses, to access low-cost innovative...
FE Report | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) would unveil the quarterly report on gross domestic product (GDP) from November next, starting with the last-quarter data of the current fiscal year (FY 2022-23).“After releasing the first report in November 2023, it will...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Noted economists have said that government borrowing from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been increasing alarmingly, reaching a mark this year that it has not reached in the last 50 years. At a post-budget discussion on Tuesday in Dhaka, they...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Few years of progress on some of Bangladesh’s important social indicators is now mixed with some regress as infant and child mortality and crude-death rates marked a rise, latest official statistics show.The total fertility rate of women also increased to...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh is set to sign an agreement with a Saudi company on operation, modernisation and expansion of the Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) beside Chittagong seaport, in the first go of Riyadh's port-venture bids here. The deal with Red Sea Gateway...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office.It may also...
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